Daven for the sake of Davening - Rabbi Netanel Lebowitz

when considering the chuva process that we just underwent about a month ago on rosh hashanah and yom kippur we find that akash baruch and khazal are making a very bold and clear statement about what priorities in that process are because while the books of life and death are open on rosh hashanah and we believe that akanesh baruch is in judgment on that day we don't find ourselves fasting and banging our chests and apologizing for sins that we've done during the previous year on rosh hashanah what is the truth on rosh hashanah that if we pledge allegiance to barco if we genuinely dedicate ourselves to live our lives along the lines of what he expects from us so without talking about previous actions that in and of itself is juva if we define ourselves as servants of hashem if we identify ourselves as people who believe with full heart that hashem is the king so then regardless of what action we've done before that itself is chuva this gives us an insight about something that happens in the structure of this morning estuary that we say every day that arranged as well that i would i would think that before i asked hashem to allow us to return to him and to rekindle the strong relationship that we had with him first we would have to apologize for sins that we've previously done slack lanu should really come before hashi venue we should say we're sorry before we ask hashem to allow us to return but yet khazal instituted hashivainu first because while salah leno is a key part of the chuva process really what akash barco is interested in is how are we defining and identifying ourselves are we committing ourselves to a life of of torah and an avodah sashem so hashimo comes first hashem this is what i want i'm committing to a life of torah and then after that if need be we could mop up the rest with salah within the bracha of hashivainu itself we also find another insight of the tv explain what are we returning to return us what are we returning to so either we're returning to harshinai or we are returning to as the gemara brings down in nida that we're returning to the state in the womb when the malach taught us torah before we were born that when the egg is fertilized and starts dividing into into cells and developing into the human body that's all done within the backdrop within the environment of torah while we're developing as a person so torah is a key part already of that development hashem returned me to that torah that i was learning in development that was so key to the identity of a human being returned me to that state that's how i want to be defined that itself that commitment is what coach mark was looking for in the in the chuva process [Music] get back to the point of realizing that our identity is as a person who's one with the torah you